Microsoft Excel is still the default spreadsheet for many organizations, but “market share” depends heavily on how it’s measured (install base signals, technographics, or user surveys). Below are recent, source-backed market-share-style benchmarks plus supporting adoption stats.
Excel market share (Datanyze): Microsoft Excel is listed at 12.21% market share with 283,672 companies using it in Datanyze’s “Other Communication and Collaboration Software” category.
Google Sheets market share (Datanyze): Google Sheets is listed at 1.27% market share with 29,468 companies using it in the same Datanyze category.
Office productivity suite share (Enlyft): In Enlyft’s “Office Productivity” category, Google Apps is about 45.58% and Microsoft Office 365 about 29.48%.
Excel dominance inside finance (Datarails survey): Datarails reports 89% of companies’ financial processes run on Excel, and 40% of respondents named Excel as their favorite business software.
Office productivity suite market share (Enlyft)
This chart uses Enlyft’s “Office Productivity” category shares for Google Apps and Microsoft Office 365. “Other” is the remainder of the category after those two leaders.
Label
Bar
Value
Google Apps
45.58%
Microsoft Office 365
29.48%
Other (all remaining)
24.94%
Max = 45.58%. Widths: Google Apps 100.00%, Microsoft Office 365 64.68%, Other (all remaining) 54.72%.
Spreadsheet tool market share (Datanyze)
Datanyze reports “market share” based on its technographic tracking within its category taxonomy. This comparison uses the reported shares for Microsoft Excel and Google Sheets in the same Datanyze category.
Label
Bar
Value
Microsoft Excel
12.21%
Google Sheets
1.27%
Max = 12.21%. Widths: Microsoft Excel 100.00%, Google Sheets 10.40%.
Excel’s “share” of finance teams’ favorite tools (Datarails survey)
This is not software market share; it’s preference share from a finance-professionals survey. It’s included because it helps explain Excel’s staying power in organizations where spreadsheets are central.
Label
Bar
Value
Excel (favorite software)
40%
ERP systems
26%
FP&A platforms
17%
PowerPoint
9%
Max = 40%. Widths: Excel (favorite software) 100.00%, ERP systems 65.00%, FP&A platforms 42.50%, PowerPoint 22.50%.
Additional Excel adoption stats (useful context for “market share”)
Metric
Statistic
Survey size (finance)
212 finance professionals (US & UK)
Processes running on Excel
89% of companies’ financial processes run on Excel
Love Excel (younger finance pros)
54% of 22–32-year-olds say they love Excel (vs 39% for older cohorts)
Time spent in Excel (younger cohort)
83% spend 5+ hours/day; 27% spend 7+ hours/day
Excel’s future relevance
84% believe Excel will remain as important or become more important over the next decade
Emotional attachment
82% report high or moderate emotional attachment to Excel
Top pain points
Data consolidation (28%), data entry/updates (23%), version control (22%), collaboration (14%)
Material errors
99% have found a material Excel error before sharing externally
Error-hunting time
81% spend 6+ hours per month hunting down/fixing Excel errors
How to interpret these “market share” numbers
Enlyft market share reflects its tracking of which companies appear to use specific “Office Productivity” products (install base signals), not unit sales or revenue share.
Datanyze market share reflects its technographic categorization and detection across its tracked company set; the category name matters, so comparisons should stay within the same category.
Survey stats (like Datarails) reflect reported behavior in a specific audience (here, finance professionals), which can differ from general-market usage.
Enlyft — Google Apps market share in Office Productivity: https://enlyft.com/tech/products/google-apps
Enlyft — Microsoft Office 365 market share in Office Productivity: https://enlyft.com/tech/products/microsoft-office-365
Datanyze — Microsoft Excel market share (category: Other Communication and Collaboration Software): https://www.datanyze.com/market-share/other-communication-and-collaboration-software–427/microsoft-excel-market-share
Datanyze — Google Sheets market share (same category): https://www.datanyze.com/market-share/other-communication-and-collaboration-software–427/google-sheets-market-share
Datarails — “Why Gen Z and Millennial Finance Professionals Love Excel…” (survey results; published Dec 11, 2025): https://www.datarails.com/why-gen-z-and-millennial-finance-professionals-love-excel/
CFO.com — Coverage of the same Datarails survey (published Dec 10, 2025): https://www.cfo.com/news/54-of-gen-z-finance-employees-are-loving-microsoft-excel-cfo-/807516/
